so ask for us and the world put up serious skies for western bombers another broadside of assad's regime well al qaeda is number two indorse is the rebellion. egyptian relief over the end of thirty year emergency rule is short lived as authorities again allow the army to detain civilians head of the presidential election run off but it's the country's women as we report who fear the worst. and a sinister walk in the woods of infuriated general how an opposition journalist claims led to a showdown with russia's top investigator over an article accusing him of math feeling.

hello this is r.t. my name is kevin lowe it is two pm now moscow time our top story france could ask the united nations to allow a no fly zone over syria the country's foreign minister also says he hopes the u.n. will authorize the use of force in order to bring about peace within syria blasters injured ten people near a hospital in damascus just days after the rebellion was given the blessing of al qaeda second in command a video of libby who the u.s. says was killed in a pakistan drone strike shows him calling on islam is worldwide to go to syria or join the fight against president. as it is rare for national reports no it's further evidence that extremists might be taking advantage of the country's civil war. this video is a clear indicator that in the conflict here in syria you kind of global terrorist organization is taken inside and supporting those who are fighting against president bashar al assad and they extended their presence in the come. it's not

the first message of its kind earlier in february we heard al qaeda is leader calling on all muslims to support the syrian rebels president assad has been blaming militant groups and international terrorists for violence of his country since the beginning of the uprising here in syria last march but it took each year for the international community to start admitting that too it's only last tuesday that british foreign secretary william hague has also knowledge that groups affiliated with al qaida were operating in syria all visibly vaseline on the side of the rebels and fuel in the conflict and violence here in the country we've also been hearing a lot and many times from members and from. members that they are ready to provide the rebels with all kinds of support but everything they need be money over weapons this news has come at the time of the reason valas all over syria and dramatic escalation of the events and un has expressed its concern over

what's going on here in the country and banking moon has called on all countries with influence on both rebels of the syrian government to call on all parties to lay down arms and to pull back as he put it from the brink. well alone from the american campaign group just for him said foreign policy told me he believes there's a contradiction between u.s. support of the rebels and its recognition that al-qaeda is fighting amongst them. they already know that the and even according to the us. their concern for example. like groups in iraq. syria. are you know likely believed by the us to be behind some of the spectacular bombings and tourist attacks in syria on the one hand you have the u.s. saying that they're concerned about verbs in the armed opposition and their links to. jihad is on the other hand you have u.s.

providing so-called non-lethal aid to the armed opposition and be sickly giving apparently a green light to other countries to arm the opposition so yes there is a contradiction in policy. american secretary of state hillary clinton spoke to war of words for the russian counterpart sergey lavrov after accusing moscow selling new attack helicopters to president assad so they're not even the pentagon seems to know anything about these loose acuff and offers more of the diplomats fiery exchange. while the top u.n. official may have labeled the syrian conflict a full fledged civil war according to the u.s. secretary of state russia could actually be to blame for the escalating crisis secretary of state hillary clinton to raise some eyebrows and stirred some diplomatic controversy on tuesday when she insisted that russian attack helicopters were on their way to syria take a look we have confronted the russians about stopping their continued arms

shipments to to syria and we are concerned about the latest information we have that there are attack helicopters on the way from russia to syria now washington seem to be caught off guard by a secretary of state hillary clinton's remarks which stumped even the pentagon's own spokesman can you provide any details as to what kind of helicopters where they live or how are they being delivered. i have not seen reporting that indicates. that the russians are providing attack helicopters to the syrians i have just not seen that now while washington was left to sort out its confusion over the comments russia's foreign minister sergey lavrov was very clear in his denial of those allegations and we see it yes we are currently fulfilling a preexisting that was signed and paid for contracts for one of these contracts related to defense only and exclusively we do not export to syria or anywhere else

for anything that could be used against peaceful demonstrators because you believe that's markedly different to the united states which regularly ships such weapons to the region just recently when such shipment arrived in a certain persian gulf state but for some reason the u.s. considers this normal and we knew it was over now russian attack helicopters are in hot demand right now and that's because the u.s. pentagon spends millions to buy russian made seventeen's on behalf of the afghan air force. giving a sense their secret seems to be. tougher washington mandarins as we report later this hour there's a backlash for president obama's inner circle with claims of trading national security for political gain by allowing the leak of classified data interesting story come out for not cause i want to read it. and debts and drugs in ireland financial desperation sends increasing numbers into addiction yet the government slowly pulling funds from rehab. egypt could be sliding back

into emergency rule after the government restored rights to the army to detain civilians the muslim brotherhood's warning that the move will allow the military a tighter grip on control even after this weekend's one of presidential election but one group fears islam is domination even more many egyptian women believe it will send the country back to the dark ages as paul asli a founder. she's young and ambitious and planning to become egypt's next president but she needs to wait ten years until shooting forty so she can run not for the sake of you know winning the seat or so but for the sequel proving that egypt and women can deal with it but they're not doing it at the moment this woman trying to run for president this time around and couldn't even get the fifty thousand signatures to qualify our evolution is for they quietly stood for the freedom for their dignity and when this value those values when success we can see a woman president but with radical islam on the rise and the muslim brotherhood

candidate making it to the presidential runoff the fact that women played an important role in the demonstrations that brought down mubarak doesn't mean much the number of women in the egyptian parliament has fallen from twelve percent before the revolution to just two percent now and that's despite the fact that some fifty one percent of egypt is female noticeably absent from the presidential election campaign trails was the issue of women rights and women equality leaving many egyptian women to fear that in the post mubarak here it. lives will get worse afaf added l. creme has been trying for five years to divorce her husband but divorce is tough to achieve and within islamic influence it will only get tougher i don't want to go wherever did i don't mind giving up all my financial rights even the money left to me by my father who recently died my husband doesn't give me our children any money and he treats me very badly. after a bit cream is hoping the courts rule in her favor even if that means she'll be out

on the street with nothing but she wants the judge to decide soon before hardcore islamised get into power and human rights activists like dr side i bring him are worried the future over the country state to the role of women. the full equality of women. living in the under my door. and that is the evidence. in the road to progress to develop and so why dolly and might be inspiring her generation and she's received awards from around the globe for her fearlessness in tweeting and blogging about the evolution more and more people are asking if it's possible because evolution it was supposed to liberate its people might just land i've been slaving at least a part of it policy r.t. . so egypt's about to decide to have the state's top job but still lacks

a constitution in about twenty minutes here on this channel then we hear from an expert on how votes going to affect the path to democracy. we're told just we are going to solve the problem with the presidential election that's not going to happen and look at what is happening or so we have even people saying we have to stop the whole the process because even the fact that we have someone who is representing the all regime they should be how come and be still here where they were saying that we need to put in the constitution that the people who are from the old regime cannot present themselves for the next ten years but you cannot come with this because it's not in the constitution and constitution is going to be written after the election it's a mess it's not there is no transparency and how can you speak about the margaret procedures if there is not transparency in the way it's put. argentina's president cristina fernandez de kirchner will lay out her country's

claim to the falkland islands at a un meeting in new york this thursday it takes place thirty years to the day after the war over the pritish territory ended decades on the ownership dispute thousand islands is settled a referendum next year to decide the future argentina says the british illegally occupied the falklands which it calls the melvina it's almost two hundred years ago nine hundred people died in the one nine hundred eighty two conflict and now to say they're being forgotten above all the high level posturing political analyst martin mccauley says it's. so lucrative all reserves off the falklands coast is fueling the dispute. if you like signal to one's art is that the focus is or is the argentinians call them last month venus wish to stay part of britain and don't wish to become a province of argentina if you look at the language which is coming from what is are is there due to new government is using very very strong language and some people might say threats about security of the falkland islands the falklands have

been claimed by explain britain france and even the dutch and the i.g. do claim is a very thin one but argentina is concerned about structure it's got so. under the water there the idea to you to discover. you know just you know it's possible that will extend right through to the falklands. british companies. prospecting for us around the falklands so we find. strategically and economically very very important and. of course very very wealthy . in the united states several classified documents revealing the administration's achievements in battling terrorism have recently been leaked to the american media now it's put the white house in the firing line and for jeopardizing national

security for the sake of political gain one former foreign service officer at the state department believes america could end up paying a high price now for these leaks. leaking information that papers you is not unique to obama i think what's unique here are two things first the secrecy of these infor of this information the stuxnet worm the things that are going on in iran this raid that killed bin ladin information came out in those instances that was beyond top secret and was known to very few people and that's something new coupled with obama's aggressive persecution of whistleblowers his use of the espionage act that's the other side of this story and that's the other thing that's unique in this case obama's ratings go up he watches the polls very carefully they put out this information that he practically does these things himself with this bloody hands and his popularity goes up this is about a president who believes that he'll turns right or wrong he alone can decide what

information may be amateur united states and what information he needs to brag about his own purposes just as he alone apparently decides who lives and who dies under america's drones the world's your fingertips. website here a couple of stories online right now for you have when the beautiful gave turns into an ugly event as russian fans that euro two thousand and twelve couple of days ago in warsaw were attacked by polish football hooligans we got more pictures more on that story online and most americans agree that the best way to elect authorities is a day wrecked democratic vote but in one texas city it seems a throw the dice may be enough. this is tape russia's top investigator has denied allegations that he stretton one

of the country's opposition journalists over a newspaper article the controversial report claimed that the high ranking official took part in a criminal conspiracy when the high profile going to get more on this story is developing in russia paper all of us on the case i pay to now i guess the answer is the newspaper isn't it now it's far from being government friendly let's face it but what's it trying to highlight here. well the heads of no vague as yet to me to murder atal for has written an editorial in which he claims one of his journalists . was taken into woods in moscow on the orders of alexander that he can the chairman of the investigative council now in those woods it's claimed that he was his life was threatened the article goes on to say that this comes off the back of an opinion piece that was written by and which he made a series of very serious allegations against that he can accusing him of having

links with organized crime in southern russia now this was followed up by a public bus stop between so-called of. the can which resulted in so little of apologizing formally now has dismissed out of hand and all of the claims made in this editorial. saying that if the events that are supposed to have happened that exist in this editorial happened over a week ago why did the newspaper take so long to publish them he's accused. of mixing facts with lies in their reporting saying that there was categorically no abduction of one of the journalists he's late the blame for this current situation firmly at the door of the newspaper accusing no vegas yetzer of publishing a blatant and shameless article and went on to say that it was he himself who had invited so could all along to see first hand how the committee conducted a high profile investigation into organized crime in russia's south has since left

russia and his editor at no big as yet explained their reasons why they delayed the publication of the story. we might have certain proof but you've got to understand we want our journalist safety to be assured not be stricken to be fired that's why my letter isn't confrontational that's why it doesn't contain all the things the side call each other in this letter we say you have threatened the life of our employee it may well be because of emotions or due to stress but we didn't get a proper explanation and face to face meeting that's why we delay publishing this letter for so long we wanted to settle this thing peacefully in a human way obviously we're also prone to emotions things happen we apologized for that of circle of his able to come home with safety guarantees from colonel general bust thinking we're happy with that or. the publishing of this

editorial prompted protests by journalists outside the headquarters of the investigative committee those journalists saying that they have firmly behind the newspaper and it's journalists it's also expected that the editor in chief of not being as yet that is set to meet with alexander mistaken to discuss this issue further later all of a thanks for bringing us up to date on this story today. in her most stark call to action yet germany's chancellor angela merkel is warning that a country strength is not endless urging greater political union in europe such a move would see countries give up more of the sovereign powers than to the e.u. earlier the union was again pounded by credit downgrades moody's rating agency slashed the scores of spain and cyprus citing burgeoning debt burdens and uncertainty ahead of the next greek elections but also warned that spanish debt could yet be relegated to junk status focusing on the latest trials and tribulations in the new the kaiser report is here in just over an hour's time.

spain bailout terms to be agreed within a week or urgency reflects a growing consensus that spanish class might start chain reaction that could topple italy and destroy the euro well you know it's pretty much all the game and some are more well known than others and there they know that con artists like the european technocrats know that the victims of the car and the europeans were the greeks or the spanish or the irish they are the instinct they're too polite to question the current artists because they're talking they wear suits they have nice hands you know they come in there and they target good game and they want maybe we're wrong maybe we're the ones that need to really examine what our position and they're very polite and the con artist walk out the door with their money step get their pockets picked but do big banks don't waste your time or get lonely is a downer.

who would use a brief for militants have been killed in northwestern pakistan in the latest u.s. airstrike security officials say an unmanned drone fired two missiles at a vehicle ten days ago in a strike in the same region which is seen as a taliban stronghold or fifteen al qaeda terrorist dead including a senior figure. yemen's government says it's working to seize a third term from al qaida off today. ways of airstrikes and clashes in the country south burtons took control of several areas a year ago but the army successfully retaken some of the strongholds seventeen al qaeda members were killed in the latest phase of the operation just seems a major success for given a new president. hundreds of firefighters are battling a massive wildfire in northern colorado it's led to the death so far of a sixty two year old woman but the hot dry weather and changing winds are how print their efforts with scores of people being evacuated from the area thousands of homes are still threatened and emergency crews are expected to be fighting that blaze for weeks to come. times are tough these days in our lives for increasing

numbers of people especially in dublin and that means a lot of descent into addiction drug abuse centers in the city say they're seeing more things coming through their doors now and as laura smith reports the cash strapped governments not so keen to pay for their rehab it's a tale of two cities the happy go lucky dublin where locals and tourists stop drink and make merry rubbing shoulders with a seedy underbelly telamon blocks where the poor struggle to make ends meet and drug workers estimate one person in sixty takes heroin to me gagin runs a needle exchange and rehab program where he sees marginalized people who take a cocktail of drugs leading often to cry and recessions making it worst he's seeing eleven new people a week what happens is when people have less disposable income and can't find work or can't find you know. more recourse.

or conning you know who to turn. people off. between drugs and crime and noll not his real name is recovering from the years of drug addiction he says his story of economic privation and boredom leading to drugs and the breakdown of relationships with family friends and community. what i was saying and more to say this is i know we lived on social welfare and my father would have been around. for it was quite a left to. know did everything except heroin finding his brother dead from an overdose as a teenager saw to that he's in a four month rehab program partly funded at least for now by the state work isn't getting any easier for the people who run vital drug programs in ireland drop incenses needle exchanges seventeen week residential course it's none of that is

cheap to run and despite increasing numbers of addict desperate to get the drug and rehab center to seeing their government funding for late every year state drug program contributions are being slashed by ten percent a year and for the various drop in center for the homeless waiting lists a growing from a few days to weeks or months he says addicts need immediate attention something they're less and less likely to get to become marlise the say no point in even trying i'm never going to do it so having access to treatment programs to my mind is vital if in this fight against drugs the treatment programs in ireland or hopelessly inadequate and as the recession boy even harder they won't get any better with disastrous consequences for addicts for communities and for society laura smith r.t. . so this is not a case of we are to a business desk for

a skating well europe deals with a surging borrowing costs to get more of it here in russia investors are focused on those oil prices what you call yeah exactly right here in russia as you say it's all about oil because we know the markets they are focused on it because they fear a much rely on them and today it's a big day kevin because you got the opec meeting and well they're. stretches keep their production quota on change is the organization of petroleum exporting countries outside apec in that meeting in vienna today at around six pm more scary time so investors are holding tight for that one of the real kind of heavyweights in the oil world really because they account for over forty percent of the production so let's see all prices now is what the situation is and they are dropping as a society is the still hovering around those eight months alone as you can see just as i say they're expected to keep the quarter unchanged and that's because they're

going to agree to disagree we had the saudi arabia oil minister he was saying that he would like to see those increase because of supposed law i would like to see a bit of kind of leeway given to the global markets because obviously we've got a sovereign debt crisis going on we've got a slowing growth in the us as well so the price is very much put pressure on those economies when families are going to the pump they hear right so the prices they want to go high for investors so they really get on to the russian markets and see what situation is right now we have a look at the r.t.s. on the rise as you can see they're still in negative territory but night has of that for the r.t.s. and the mice is just shortly behind rate as we enter the afternoon session here in moscow all right let's have a look at some of the movers and shakers of the dac is up the softer new because the ruler uses a good gas for eight tenths of said down big energy major here the biggest the second biggest bank the t.v. over up has sent down blue color as well just six basis points just holding out for

that meeting later on the softer news in all right to see how the variables getting on then the russian current say as been struggling erased awakes as you can see is losing against the u.s. dollar and the year and the trading session today stop. much movement as tool really if we look at the origin of those lows in just a fraction there one twenty five fifty four kevin you mentioned it yourself the borrowing costs are going to talk about those. seconds but right now i want to talk about cyprus because they're off to russia for some help and russia is going to give actually this is get well this is interesting now it's a case of russia to the rescue for five for us now russia says it's willing to loan five billion dollars to the troubled economy and the us after a request was put forward after major cypriot banks were downgraded due to the high exposure to the greek economy is not the first time the two countries have been linked last year russia provided the republic with two point five feet in your eyes

and the us could hit ten percent of cypriot g.t. pay as a sidebar in courses well we've just had some results come in spain in italy reaching all time highs cyprus has got a downgrade but so has spain as well and that's really putting pressure on those borrowing costs. right so spain ten year bond yields seven percent attorney in as well we got five point three percent so the pressure is on in europe today demanding a higher borrowing cost us the situation right now as you can see got a foot see that probably three quarters of them said down the dies round eight ten so we said in negative territory at this hour this is how asia go on that earlier in the session because they kicked it all off and they had some domestic data coming out as well we know that china has been suffering from slowing growth recently credit suisse and to each of bank they've. changed their output growth

forecast for the country down eight percent for the country sounds good doesn't it but it's not for china all right then as you say they carry two tenths of a cent in negative territory of iraq about fifty minutes or difference creates a year that spanish bailout light is the calling your own all the converse is true gone there's no we're very much crosses story ok for example so much now russia crosses borders all across europe twenty twelve favorite so holland minimize the chances of qualifying to the player for suffering two losses in a row last night the frontrunner the boot with all expert sports news stream where the in about fifteen minutes time but next on our team from moscow it's headline.

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